Liberia CSOs Anti-corruption Coalition has launched the Citizens Voices Anti-Corruption Forum (C-VAC Forum) to address corruption in the country.

The forum, Development Diaries understands, is an initiative aimed at fostering and promoting open discussion on corruption and integrity issues among citizens.

Transparency International, in its 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index report, ranked Liberia 137th.

The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be.

A country or territory’s rank indicates its position relative to the other countries and territories in the index.

Against this background, C-VAC Forum, according to the CSOs, is designed to focus on awareness and understanding of most pressing local and international corruption issues.

The C-VAC Forum seeks to make space for concerned and marginalised groups, especially youths, to voice their opinion and put forward solutions on issues that promote transparency, accountability and good governance.

At the launch of the forum at the Friends of Friends Haitai Centre, the Coordinator of the coalition of CSOs, James Koryor, commended the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) for adopting pro-citizen and positive civil society disposition.

He urged the LACC leadership to build sustainable partnerships with local civil society actors.

For his part, the LACC head, Kanio Gbala, thanked the coalition for undertaking the initiative and emphasised that it was indeed important for ordinary citizens to own the debate about corruption.

Source: New Republic Liberia

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